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...Sciences recently sponsored a symposium on the concept of the unconscious. In the U.S.S.R., talk therapy or "rational psychotherapy," is mostly a series of admonishing lectures. The doctor listens to the patient, then tells him how he ought to behave. If the complaint is deemed too trivial-anxiety, or mild depression-a patient may be told not to come back at all. Hypnosis is often used by doctors to encourage healthier behavior, like trying to get an alcoholic to stop drinking. Says Dr. Vyacheslav Kotov, chief doctor-psychiatrist for the city of Moscow: "A psychiatrist should understand his patient...
...mild spring evening in Moscow, and the city's balletomanes had turned out in force. The setting was familiar: the ornately gilded, plush-trimmed Bolshoi Theater. So was the program, which included an adagio from Sleeping Beauty and variations from Don Quixote and Le Corsaire. But wait. Up onstage were none of the usual Bolshoi Ballet stars, no Plisetskayas or Vasilyevs, no familiar figures at all. In fact, although the dancers showed flashes of the rigorous technique and expressive line that mark the Bolshoi style, there was here and there an unaccustomed slip, a slack fouetté, a leaden...
With local variations, the same sorry pattern exists in most of America's larger cities. While Atlanta still boasts that it is "a city too busy to hate" and racial friction seems mild, there is tinder in the deterioration of its public housing. About 50,000 blacks occupy such buildings, which are heavily rat infested. City officials have detected some 10,000 housing code violations in just one project...
There is no doubt that the recession will greatly magnify the political problems of Jimmy Carter. While no one would ever admit it publicly, his policies seemed designed to produce a recession deliberately. He hoped that it would be short and mild, but apparently accepted the widespread opinion that only a recession could break the U.S. inflation...
...battle about how much to increase military spending, and how far to cut social services, in the budget for fiscal 1981, which starts Oct. 1. Congress and Carter insist that inflation must be fought by producing a budget that would be balanced if there were only a mild recession-even though the deep recession now under way is just about certain to bring another large deficit...